““Are you happy, Norman?” asked Brant.
“Well, sure, I guess.”
“That’s what I thought,” she said bitterly. “Neither am I.””

—  George Alec Effinger

Source: Death in Florence (1978), Chapter 3 “Moore and More” (p. 129).

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